Chardal- I think your response is displaying more ignorance than you realize. You may want to get out there and see what happens in real life outside the dictionary and websites. That information sounds nice but doesn’t hold water to real life people.
GH- you know what really is pathetic? pulling that ‘if it was your kid or grandkid’ garbage. You haven’t a clue if it IS my kid. You have the chutzpah to say we are lacking empathy when we have come up with several possible solutions that actually are IN PLACE and WORKING in many schools to accommodate peanut allergies when YOUR response to our claim of suffering on the other side is to call us entitled. What a chutzpah. Do you have the decency to even wonder why, ask why, think that there may be a valid reason? What double standards! Maybe I should wish on you a child (or even a grandchild!) who suffers the other way and then, when your eyes open and you learn what the word empathy REALLY means there won’t be a hole deep enough to bury yourself in!